The smuggling of endangered wildlife, both dead and alive, is a billion dollar global business, second only in size to the illegal arms and drug trades. American border control continues to see an incessant attempt at bringing hundreds of species into the United States every year - each attempt more creative than the next.
Chatuchak market in Bangkok is one of the largest open air flea markets in Thailand, attracting locals and tourists alike. It boasts over 8,000 vendors selling every type of good under the sun: ceramics, antiques, furniture, clothing and endangered animals. Chatachuk has been recognised by the World Wildlife Fund as a hot spot for illegal animal trade.
"It's really disturbing actually - there's no telling what you're going to find," says Joseph Johns, prosecutor of environmental crimes at the US Attorney's office in Los Angeles, of Chatachuk. "You couldn't do this anywhere in the United States of America."
People do ask me, 'what's the strangest animal you've ever seen?' and I'll tell them, 'it's man'.
Mike Osborn, supervisor, US Fish and Wildlife ServiceThe market is a tragically perfect place to sell and buy illegal wildlife. It is a bustling scene with hoards of people, perfect cover for a potential deal. Vendors can hide their illegal animals behind domestic pet storefronts. Thailand itself serves as a major funnel for the $10 billion illegal wildlife trade. There is a good chance that what is sold in Chatuchak might find it's way back to the United States.
The black market for the animal trade is unsurprisingly nondiscriminatory - live crocodiles, overharvested Queen conch shells, and even rare orchids and other flora have also made their way across patrolled borders.
"I've had monkeys jump out of suitcases, birds flying out of toothpaste boxes... they get more and more intricate nowadays," says Mike Osborn, supervisor with the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
In some cases, the attempts to smuggle have been so desperate, the methods have matched the desire to make business. In Los Angeles, Jereme James was caught smuggling three Fiji island banded iguanas from a nature preserve - whilst on honeymoon - and attempting to sell them to an undercover US Fish and Wildlife Service agent. James admitted to smuggling the iguanas by creating a special compartment in his prosthetic leg.
As with many other animals seized at the border, the iguanas in question were rescued by a zoo, in this case, the San Diego ZooReptile House. According to zoo curator Kim Lovich, most seized animals live out their days in captivity; it can be very difficult to return an animal back to its home without full knowledge of its original habitat.
"If you don't know exactly where that animal is from, you could be introducing viruses to a naive population," says Lovich.
The species themselves are selected for a range of values. Some for their rare and exotic qualities, like an ivory totem or a python wallet. Others are captured and sold for pseudo-medicinal purposes, such as the bladder from the Totoaba, a critically endangered sea bass that can only be found in Mexico's Sea of Cortez. The demand for this specific organ is coming from over 8,000 miles aay in Asia due to the belief that the bladder can improve circulation, skin vitality and boost fertility. One bladder can sell for $15,000 on the black market.
Undercover agents are doing what they can to intercept the sale of trafficked goods, but the major driver of this falls on the public and the escalating demand for exotic animals. An economic boom, superstition, celebrity, and dubious medicinal claims are all playing a role, encouraging conspicuous consumption in Asia. Education and crackdowns need to continue to help mitigate the global trade.
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Check out the craziest smuggling attempts ever caught! From smugglers with exotic animals to other contraband, this top 10 list of crazy smuggle stories at the customs border is absolutely shocking!
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10. Cockatoos in Water Bottles
Smugglers come up with ingenious, and often very cruel ways to try to take animals through customs. They stand to make a lot of money if they are successful, but treating animals like a commodity leads to them being treated very badly. One of the clearest examples of this happened in 2015, when officials in Indonesia found 24 Cockatoos that had been stuffed into water bottles.
The critically endangered species can sell for as much at 1,000 dollars on the black market, but with less than 7,000 of them thought to remain in the wild it’s vital that they are protected. Luckily on this occasion the birds were found and freed before they could be taken out of the country, but bird smuggling is a real problem in Indonesia. About 10,000 parrots are thought to be caught and sold each year, with more than 40% of them believed to die in transit because of the horrible conditions they are kept in.
9. Watermelons Full of WeedDespite the fact that marijuana is becoming increasingly legal across the United States and around the world, there’s still a massive industry based around the illegal transportation and sale of the drug. Smugglers conceal it within everyday objects to try and cover up the smell.
This failed attempt in May of 2015 was trying to do just that. At the port of Nogales, Arizona, a CustomsBorder Patrol dog alerted officers to a suspicious shipment on a tractor-trailer rig, so they investigated further. The boxes they found were full of watermelons, but some looked kind of weird. What the smugglers had done was hidden bales of marijuana mixed in with the fruit that were wrapped in a way to make them look like watermelon. Of course, it became quite obvious once officers realized what they were looking for, and the smugglers must not have done a good job, because in total, they found 128 bales that contained 1,455 pounds of weed. This would have been worth about 728,000 dollars if sold on the black market, and the driver soon found his whole shipment being confiscated and, in the end, incinerated.
8. CocaineBreast Implants
You’ve probably heard of people trying to conceal drugs inside themselves to try and smuggle them on an airplane or across a border, but this next story takes it to a whole new level. In 2012, a woman who was travelling from Bogotá, Colombia to Barcelona, Spain was acting pretty strangely. Customs officials pulled her aside for questioning. Unconvinced by her responses, they decided to take her to one of the back rooms to conduct a more thorough search.
The female officer conducting the investigation soon noticed some bandages around the woman’s breasts that were soaked in blood. She asked about them, and the woman claimed she had recently had breast enhancement surgery. The officer removed the bandages and found, to her surprise, that there were open wounds on each breast, with no attempt at stitching at all. She must have been in extreme pain and was bleeding quite badly. Furthermore, there were clearly visible plastic bags protruding from the wounds.
The traveller was immediately sent to the local hospital where the full extent of what had happened was discovered. Within each breast was a bag containing 1.5 pounds of pure uncut cocaine.
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Peru's Monkey Business: In this episode Unreported world goes deep into the amazon jungle to investigate the murky world of wildlife trafficking.
South american crocodiles, monkeys and even big cats are highly prosed as exotic pets - but many are also endangered.
Ade Adepitan went to Peru to track down the criminal networks trafficking tens of thousands of animals every year.
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This Unreported World episode was first aired on Channel 4 on 17/03/2017.

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CairoConnection (2008): On the trail of wildlife smugglers in Cairo.
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In January 2005, a crate containing six baby chimpanzees and four monkeys was rescued from a flight from Cairo. The animals had been denied food and water for days and one soon died. Scouring flight records, animal investigators linked the shipment to a notorious wildlife smuggler. It's believed this smuggler traffics an average of 40 chimpanzees a year, bribing airport officials. Despite a wealth of evidence against her, she has never been prosecuted.
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Wildlife trafficking is estimated to be a $19 billion per year global business, surpassed only by black-market sales and trafficking of drugs, humans, and firearms.
In theUnited States, regulation of private ownership of exotic animals is determined by each state, allowing for loopholes and oversight. Animals are bought and traded through auctions, backyard breeders, illicit online sales and more. The industry is growing right in our backyards.
VICE travels to Ohio to rescue a cougar, then to Texas for an exotic livestock auction and undercover visit to a gaming ranch where the animals are sold and hunted for up to $15,000 a piece.
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Customs officials at an airport in Shanghai uncovered 121 endangered snakes stuffed into a suitcase. The snakes belonged to a smuggler, who claimed that they were just toys when officers asked to look inside the case, after seeing abnormal images on the scanner screen. Upon opening the case customs officials found the reptiles stuffed into black stockings and packed away in 21 plastic boxes. The snakes have been identified as endangered ball pythons, so called because they curl into a ball when frightened. It is illegal to trade the snakes across international borders, but these pythons had been smuggled to Hong Kong from Seattle by air cargo, where the trafficker picked them up and carried them to Shaghai. The unsuccessful smuggler was detained by police and may face up to life imprisonment for trafficking rare animals. Report by LaurieBlake.
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Andrea Isom has a rare look into the illegal wildlife trade.
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The Wildlife Alliance is making big strides in fighting the booming illegal animal trade in Cambodia with its conservationists and special forces successfully taking on the organized mafia-style business.
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Wildlife (band)

Wildlife are a Canadianindie rock band formed in 2005. The band is currently based in Toronto. The band's debut LP Strike Hard, Young Diamond was favourably received by both Exclaim! and Chart.

History

Formation

Band members Dean Povinsky, Graham Plant and Dwayne Christie are originally from Oshawa, Ontario. Wildlife began as an entity in 2005, when singer/guitarist Povinsky and guitarist Darryl Smith left Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and moved to Glasgow to form and play in a band. The group, also comprising Scottish drummer Peter Kelly and Canadian Billy Holmes, spent time travelling, writing songs, recording and playing small venues around Glasgow. The dark days, rain, and a general homesickness led the members to abandon the project and return to Canada.

Povinsky moved to Toronto with the intention of continuing Wildlife with childhood friend Graham Plant on guitar, drummer Dwayne Christie and Julia Mensink playing synthesizer. The group was rounded out when bassist Derek Bosomworth was procured via a Craigslist advertisement. The band is currently based in Toronto.

Wildlife (Girlschool EP)

Wildlife is an EP produced by British heavy metal band, Girlschool and published only in Europe. It was released in 1982 by Bronze Records as a launch for the album Screaming Blue Murder. During the recording sessions for the album, bassist and singer Enid Williams left the band and this EP is the last production made by the original formation. The songs "Don't Call It Love" and "Wildlife" were recorded again for the album with new bass player Ghislaine 'Gil' Weston and new vocal tracks. The EP was also available in a red vinyl edition.

Wildlife (Mott the Hoople album)

The album was originally released in 1971; in the UK by Island Records (catalogue number ILPS 9144) and in the US by Atlantic Records (cat. no. SD 8384). It was subsequently re-released by Angel Air in 2003 SJPCD159.

Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictionalmotion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record. Such films were originally shot on film stock—the only medium available—but now include video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video, made into a TV show or released for screening in cinemas. "Documentary" has been described as a "filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception" that is continually evolving and is without clear boundaries.

Defining documentary

In popular myth, the word documentary was coined by Scottish documentarian John Grierson in his review of Robert Flaherty's film Moana (1926), published in the New York Sun on 8 February 1926, written by "The Moviegoer" (a pen name for Grierson).

Grierson's principles of documentary were that cinema's potential for observing life could be exploited in a new art form; that the "original" actor and "original" scene are better guides than their fiction counterparts to interpreting the modern world; and that materials "thus taken from the raw" can be more real than the acted article. In this regard, Grierson's definition of documentary as "creative treatment of actuality" has gained some acceptance, with this position at variance with Soviet film-maker Dziga Vertov's provocation to present "life as it is" (that is, life filmed surreptitiously) and "life caught unawares" (life provoked or surprised by the camera).

SS United States

Built at a cost of $79.4 million ($724million in today's dollars) the ship is the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the U.S. and the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic in either direction. Even in her retirement, she retains the Blue Riband, the accolade given to the passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the highest speed.

Her construction was subsidized by the U.S. government, since she was designed to allow conversion to a troopship should the need arise.United States operated uninterrupted in transatlantic passenger service until 1969. Since 1996 she has been docked at Pier 82 on the Delaware River in Philadelphia.

Design and construction

Inspired by the exemplary service of the British liners RMSQueen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, which transported hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops to Europe during World War II, the U.S. government sponsored the construction of a large and fast merchant vessel that would be capable of transporting large numbers of soldiers. Designed by renowned American naval architect and marine engineer William Francis Gibbs (1886–1967), the liner's construction was a joint effort between the United States Navy and United States Lines. The U.S. government underwrote $50 million of the $78 million construction cost, with the ship's operators, United States Lines, contributing the remaining $28 million. In exchange, the ship was designed to be easily converted in times of war to a troopship with a capacity of 15,000 troops, or to a hospital ship .

United States (album)

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The animal smugglers - Techknow

The smuggling of endangered wildlife, both dead and alive, is a billion dollar global business, second only in size to the illegal arms and drug trades. American border control continues to see an incessant attempt at bringing hundreds of species into the United States every year - each attempt more creative than the next.
Chatuchak market in Bangkok is one of the largest open air flea markets in Thailand, attracting locals and tourists alike. It boasts over 8,000 vendors selling every type of good under the sun: ceramics, antiques, furniture, clothing and endangered animals. Chatachuk has been recognised by the World Wildlife Fund as a hot spot for illegal animal trade.
"It's really disturbing actually - there's no telling what you're going to find," says Joseph Johns, prosecutor of environmental crimes at the US Attorney's office in Los Angeles, of Chatachuk. "You couldn't do this anywhere in the United States of America."
People do ask me, 'what's the strangest animal you've ever seen?' and I'll tell them, 'it's man'.
Mike Osborn, supervisor, US Fish and Wildlife ServiceThe market is a tragically perfect place to sell and buy illegal wildlife. It is a bustling scene with hoards of people, perfect cover for a potential deal. Vendors can hide their illegal animals behind domestic pet storefronts. Thailand itself serves as a major funnel for the $10 billion illegal wildlife trade. There is a good chance that what is sold in Chatuchak might find it's way back to the United States.
The black market for the animal trade is unsurprisingly nondiscriminatory - live crocodiles, overharvested Queen conch shells, and even rare orchids and other flora have also made their way across patrolled borders.
"I've had monkeys jump out of suitcases, birds flying out of toothpaste boxes... they get more and more intricate nowadays," says Mike Osborn, supervisor with the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
In some cases, the attempts to smuggle have been so desperate, the methods have matched the desire to make business. In Los Angeles, Jereme James was caught smuggling three Fiji island banded iguanas from a nature preserve - whilst on honeymoon - and attempting to sell them to an undercover US Fish and Wildlife Service agent. James admitted to smuggling the iguanas by creating a special compartment in his prosthetic leg.
As with many other animals seized at the border, the iguanas in question were rescued by a zoo, in this case, the San Diego ZooReptile House. According to zoo curator Kim Lovich, most seized animals live out their days in captivity; it can be very difficult to return an animal back to its home without full knowledge of its original habitat.
"If you don't know exactly where that animal is from, you could be introducing viruses to a naive population," says Lovich.
The species themselves are selected for a range of values. Some for their rare and exotic qualities, like an ivory totem or a python wallet. Others are captured and sold for pseudo-medicinal purposes, such as the bladder from the Totoaba, a critically endangered sea bass that can only be found in Mexico's Sea of Cortez. The demand for this specific organ is coming from over 8,000 miles aay in Asia due to the belief that the bladder can improve circulation, skin vitality and boost fertility. One bladder can sell for $15,000 on the black market.
Undercover agents are doing what they can to intercept the sale of trafficked goods, but the major driver of this falls on the public and the escalating demand for exotic animals. An economic boom, superstition, celebrity, and dubious medicinal claims are all playing a role, encouraging conspicuous consumption in Asia. Education and crackdowns need to continue to help mitigate the global trade.
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Most CRAZY Smuggling Attempts Ever Caught!

Most CRAZY Smuggling Attempts Ever Caught!

Most CRAZY Smuggling Attempts Ever Caught!

Check out the craziest smuggling attempts ever caught! From smugglers with exotic animals to other contraband, this top 10 list of crazy smuggle stories at the customs border is absolutely shocking!
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10. Cockatoos in Water Bottles
Smugglers come up with ingenious, and often very cruel ways to try to take animals through customs. They stand to make a lot of money if they are successful, but treating animals like a commodity leads to them being treated very badly. One of the clearest examples of this happened in 2015, when officials in Indonesia found 24 Cockatoos that had been stuffed into water bottles.
The critically endangered species can sell for as much at 1,000 dollars on the black market, but with less than 7,000 of them thought to remain in the wild it’s vital that they are protected. Luckily on this occasion the birds were found and freed before they could be taken out of the country, but bird smuggling is a real problem in Indonesia. About 10,000 parrots are thought to be caught and sold each year, with more than 40% of them believed to die in transit because of the horrible conditions they are kept in.
9. Watermelons Full of WeedDespite the fact that marijuana is becoming increasingly legal across the United States and around the world, there’s still a massive industry based around the illegal transportation and sale of the drug. Smugglers conceal it within everyday objects to try and cover up the smell.
This failed attempt in May of 2015 was trying to do just that. At the port of Nogales, Arizona, a CustomsBorder Patrol dog alerted officers to a suspicious shipment on a tractor-trailer rig, so they investigated further. The boxes they found were full of watermelons, but some looked kind of weird. What the smugglers had done was hidden bales of marijuana mixed in with the fruit that were wrapped in a way to make them look like watermelon. Of course, it became quite obvious once officers realized what they were looking for, and the smugglers must not have done a good job, because in total, they found 128 bales that contained 1,455 pounds of weed. This would have been worth about 728,000 dollars if sold on the black market, and the driver soon found his whole shipment being confiscated and, in the end, incinerated.
8. CocaineBreast Implants
You’ve probably heard of people trying to conceal drugs inside themselves to try and smuggle them on an airplane or across a border, but this next story takes it to a whole new level. In 2012, a woman who was travelling from Bogotá, Colombia to Barcelona, Spain was acting pretty strangely. Customs officials pulled her aside for questioning. Unconvinced by her responses, they decided to take her to one of the back rooms to conduct a more thorough search.
The female officer conducting the investigation soon noticed some bandages around the woman’s breasts that were soaked in blood. She asked about them, and the woman claimed she had recently had breast enhancement surgery. The officer removed the bandages and found, to her surprise, that there were open wounds on each breast, with no attempt at stitching at all. She must have been in extreme pain and was bleeding quite badly. Furthermore, there were clearly visible plastic bags protruding from the wounds.
The traveller was immediately sent to the local hospital where the full extent of what had happened was discovered. Within each breast was a bag containing 1.5 pounds of pure uncut cocaine.
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24:14

Illegal animal trafficking in Peru | Unreported World

Illegal animal trafficking in Peru | Unreported World

Illegal animal trafficking in Peru | Unreported World

Peru's Monkey Business: In this episode Unreported world goes deep into the amazon jungle to investigate the murky world of wildlife trafficking.
South american crocodiles, monkeys and even big cats are highly prosed as exotic pets - but many are also endangered.
Ade Adepitan went to Peru to track down the criminal networks trafficking tens of thousands of animals every year.
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This Unreported World episode was first aired on Channel 4 on 17/03/2017.

26:56

Exotic Animal Smuggling is a Problem in Africa & the Middle East

Exotic Animal Smuggling is a Problem in Africa & the Middle East

Exotic Animal Smuggling is a Problem in Africa & the Middle East

CairoConnection (2008): On the trail of wildlife smugglers in Cairo.
For similar stories, see:
The Monkeys Murdered to FillAmerica's Zoos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AgoPJu-uZU
One Man's Mission To Take His Pet ElephantsHome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFJ2y7JLbcI
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17:09

An Inside Look at the Exotic Animal Trade: Profiles by VICE

An Inside Look at the Exotic Animal Trade: Profiles by VICE

An Inside Look at the Exotic Animal Trade: Profiles by VICE

Wildlife trafficking is estimated to be a $19 billion per year global business, surpassed only by black-market sales and trafficking of drugs, humans, and firearms.
In theUnited States, regulation of private ownership of exotic animals is determined by each state, allowing for loopholes and oversight. Animals are bought and traded through auctions, backyard breeders, illicit online sales and more. The industry is growing right in our backyards.
VICE travels to Ohio to rescue a cougar, then to Texas for an exotic livestock auction and undercover visit to a gaming ranch where the animals are sold and hunted for up to $15,000 a piece.
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Customs officials at an airport in Shanghai uncovered 121 endangered snakes stuffed into a suitcase. The snakes belonged to a smuggler, who claimed that they were just toys when officers asked to look inside the case, after seeing abnormal images on the scanner screen. Upon opening the case customs officials found the reptiles stuffed into black stockings and packed away in 21 plastic boxes. The snakes have been identified as endangered ball pythons, so called because they curl into a ball when frightened. It is illegal to trade the snakes across international borders, but these pythons had been smuggled to Hong Kong from Seattle by air cargo, where the trafficker picked them up and carried them to Shaghai. The unsuccessful smuggler was detained by police and may face up to life imprisonment for trafficking rare animals. Report by LaurieBlake.
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Andrea Isom has a rare look into the illegal wildlife trade.
Check your local listings at CrimeWatchDaily.com.

3:46

The black market animal business

The black market animal business

The black market animal business

The smuggling of protected wildlife into the US is a multi-billion dollar trade.

3:28

Ruthless wildlife smuggling | Global Ideas

Ruthless wildlife smuggling | Global Ideas

Ruthless wildlife smuggling | Global Ideas

The Wildlife Alliance is making big strides in fighting the booming illegal animal trade in Cambodia with its conservationists and special forces successfully taking on the organized mafia-style business.
More information: http://www.dw.de/top-stories/global-ideas/s-30654

21:26

Documenting Asia's Illegal Animal Trade

Documenting Asia's Illegal Animal Trade

Documenting Asia's Illegal Animal Trade

We visited photographer Patrick Brown to talk about his forthcoming book, Trading to Extinction, which documents the illegal trade of endangered animals in Asia. We then travel with Brown to Guangzhou, China, where he finishes his decade-long project.
Support the book and find out more about Patrick Brown's project by visiting his Emphas.is page here: http://bit.ly/Trading_to_Extinction
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The animal smugglers - Techknow

The smuggling of endangered wildlife, both dead and alive, is a billion dollar global business, second only in size to the illegal arms and drug trades. American border control continues to see an incessant attempt at bringing hundreds of species into the United States every year - each attempt more creative than the next.
Chatuchak market in Bangkok is one of the largest open air flea markets in Thailand, attracting locals and tourists alike. It boasts over 8,000 vendors selling every type of good under the sun: ceramics, antiques, furniture, clothing and endangered animals. Chatachuk has been recognised by the World Wildlife Fund as a hot spot for illegal animal trade.
"It's really disturbing actually - there's no telling what you're going to find," says Joseph Johns, prosecutor of env...

published: 30 Oct 2016

Most CRAZY Smuggling Attempts Ever Caught!

Check out the craziest smuggling attempts ever caught! From smugglers with exotic animals to other contraband, this top 10 list of crazy smuggle stories at the customs border is absolutely shocking!
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10. Cockatoos in Water Bottles
Smugglers come up with ingenious, and often very cruel ways to try to take animals through customs. They stand to make a lot of money if they are successful, but treating animals like a commodity leads to them being treated very badly. One of the clearest...

published: 31 Jan 2018

Illegal animal trafficking in Peru | Unreported World

Peru's Monkey Business: In this episode Unreported world goes deep into the amazon jungle to investigate the murky world of wildlife trafficking.
South american crocodiles, monkeys and even big cats are highly prosed as exotic pets - but many are also endangered.
Ade Adepitan went to Peru to track down the criminal networks trafficking tens of thousands of animals every year.
Subscribe to our channel for more Unreported World episodes http://bit.ly/2eUxoWX.
This Unreported World episode was first aired on Channel 4 on 17/03/2017.

published: 27 Sep 2017

Exotic Animal Smuggling is a Problem in Africa & the Middle East

CairoConnection (2008): On the trail of wildlife smugglers in Cairo.
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The Monkeys Murdered to FillAmerica's Zoos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AgoPJu-uZU
One Man's Mission To Take His Pet ElephantsHome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFJ2y7JLbcI
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An Inside Look at the Exotic Animal Trade: Profiles by VICE

Wildlife trafficking is estimated to be a $19 billion per year global business, surpassed only by black-market sales and trafficking of drugs, humans, and firearms.
In theUnited States, regulation of private ownership of exotic animals is determined by each state, allowing for loopholes and oversight. Animals are bought and traded through auctions, backyard breeders, illicit online sales and more. The industry is growing right in our backyards.
VICE travels to Ohio to rescue a cougar, then to Texas for an exotic livestock auction and undercover visit to a gaming ranch where the animals are sold and hunted for up to $15,000 a piece.
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Customs officials at an airport in Shanghai uncovered 121 endangered snakes stuffed into a suitcase. The snakes belonged to a smuggler, who claimed that they were just toys when officers asked to look inside the case, after seeing abnormal images on the scanner screen. Upon opening the case customs officials found the reptiles stuffed into black stockings and packed away in 21 plastic boxes. The snakes have been identified as endangered ball pythons, so called because they curl into a ball when frightened. It is illegal to trade the snakes across international borders, but these pythons had been smuggled to Hong Kong from Seattle by air cargo, where the trafficker picked them up and carried them to Shaghai. The unsuccessful smuggler was detaine...

Andrea Isom has a rare look into the illegal wildlife trade.
Check your local listings at CrimeWatchDaily.com.

published: 13 Jan 2016

The black market animal business

The smuggling of protected wildlife into the US is a multi-billion dollar trade.

published: 20 Mar 2010

Ruthless wildlife smuggling | Global Ideas

The Wildlife Alliance is making big strides in fighting the booming illegal animal trade in Cambodia with its conservationists and special forces successfully taking on the organized mafia-style business.
More information: http://www.dw.de/top-stories/global-ideas/s-30654

published: 03 Mar 2015

Documenting Asia's Illegal Animal Trade

We visited photographer Patrick Brown to talk about his forthcoming book, Trading to Extinction, which documents the illegal trade of endangered animals in Asia. We then travel with Brown to Guangzhou, China, where he finishes his decade-long project.
Support the book and find out more about Patrick Brown's project by visiting his Emphas.is page here: http://bit.ly/Trading_to_Extinction
Photos courtesy of Patrick Brown / Panos Pictures.
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Mecca for illegal animal trafficking and smuggling a lawless place

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The smuggling of endangered wildlife, both dead and alive, is a billion dollar global business, second only in size to the illegal arms and drug trades. America...

The smuggling of endangered wildlife, both dead and alive, is a billion dollar global business, second only in size to the illegal arms and drug trades. American border control continues to see an incessant attempt at bringing hundreds of species into the United States every year - each attempt more creative than the next.
Chatuchak market in Bangkok is one of the largest open air flea markets in Thailand, attracting locals and tourists alike. It boasts over 8,000 vendors selling every type of good under the sun: ceramics, antiques, furniture, clothing and endangered animals. Chatachuk has been recognised by the World Wildlife Fund as a hot spot for illegal animal trade.
"It's really disturbing actually - there's no telling what you're going to find," says Joseph Johns, prosecutor of environmental crimes at the US Attorney's office in Los Angeles, of Chatachuk. "You couldn't do this anywhere in the United States of America."
People do ask me, 'what's the strangest animal you've ever seen?' and I'll tell them, 'it's man'.
Mike Osborn, supervisor, US Fish and Wildlife ServiceThe market is a tragically perfect place to sell and buy illegal wildlife. It is a bustling scene with hoards of people, perfect cover for a potential deal. Vendors can hide their illegal animals behind domestic pet storefronts. Thailand itself serves as a major funnel for the $10 billion illegal wildlife trade. There is a good chance that what is sold in Chatuchak might find it's way back to the United States.
The black market for the animal trade is unsurprisingly nondiscriminatory - live crocodiles, overharvested Queen conch shells, and even rare orchids and other flora have also made their way across patrolled borders.
"I've had monkeys jump out of suitcases, birds flying out of toothpaste boxes... they get more and more intricate nowadays," says Mike Osborn, supervisor with the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
In some cases, the attempts to smuggle have been so desperate, the methods have matched the desire to make business. In Los Angeles, Jereme James was caught smuggling three Fiji island banded iguanas from a nature preserve - whilst on honeymoon - and attempting to sell them to an undercover US Fish and Wildlife Service agent. James admitted to smuggling the iguanas by creating a special compartment in his prosthetic leg.
As with many other animals seized at the border, the iguanas in question were rescued by a zoo, in this case, the San Diego ZooReptile House. According to zoo curator Kim Lovich, most seized animals live out their days in captivity; it can be very difficult to return an animal back to its home without full knowledge of its original habitat.
"If you don't know exactly where that animal is from, you could be introducing viruses to a naive population," says Lovich.
The species themselves are selected for a range of values. Some for their rare and exotic qualities, like an ivory totem or a python wallet. Others are captured and sold for pseudo-medicinal purposes, such as the bladder from the Totoaba, a critically endangered sea bass that can only be found in Mexico's Sea of Cortez. The demand for this specific organ is coming from over 8,000 miles aay in Asia due to the belief that the bladder can improve circulation, skin vitality and boost fertility. One bladder can sell for $15,000 on the black market.
Undercover agents are doing what they can to intercept the sale of trafficked goods, but the major driver of this falls on the public and the escalating demand for exotic animals. An economic boom, superstition, celebrity, and dubious medicinal claims are all playing a role, encouraging conspicuous consumption in Asia. Education and crackdowns need to continue to help mitigate the global trade.
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The smuggling of endangered wildlife, both dead and alive, is a billion dollar global business, second only in size to the illegal arms and drug trades. American border control continues to see an incessant attempt at bringing hundreds of species into the United States every year - each attempt more creative than the next.
Chatuchak market in Bangkok is one of the largest open air flea markets in Thailand, attracting locals and tourists alike. It boasts over 8,000 vendors selling every type of good under the sun: ceramics, antiques, furniture, clothing and endangered animals. Chatachuk has been recognised by the World Wildlife Fund as a hot spot for illegal animal trade.
"It's really disturbing actually - there's no telling what you're going to find," says Joseph Johns, prosecutor of environmental crimes at the US Attorney's office in Los Angeles, of Chatachuk. "You couldn't do this anywhere in the United States of America."
People do ask me, 'what's the strangest animal you've ever seen?' and I'll tell them, 'it's man'.
Mike Osborn, supervisor, US Fish and Wildlife ServiceThe market is a tragically perfect place to sell and buy illegal wildlife. It is a bustling scene with hoards of people, perfect cover for a potential deal. Vendors can hide their illegal animals behind domestic pet storefronts. Thailand itself serves as a major funnel for the $10 billion illegal wildlife trade. There is a good chance that what is sold in Chatuchak might find it's way back to the United States.
The black market for the animal trade is unsurprisingly nondiscriminatory - live crocodiles, overharvested Queen conch shells, and even rare orchids and other flora have also made their way across patrolled borders.
"I've had monkeys jump out of suitcases, birds flying out of toothpaste boxes... they get more and more intricate nowadays," says Mike Osborn, supervisor with the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
In some cases, the attempts to smuggle have been so desperate, the methods have matched the desire to make business. In Los Angeles, Jereme James was caught smuggling three Fiji island banded iguanas from a nature preserve - whilst on honeymoon - and attempting to sell them to an undercover US Fish and Wildlife Service agent. James admitted to smuggling the iguanas by creating a special compartment in his prosthetic leg.
As with many other animals seized at the border, the iguanas in question were rescued by a zoo, in this case, the San Diego ZooReptile House. According to zoo curator Kim Lovich, most seized animals live out their days in captivity; it can be very difficult to return an animal back to its home without full knowledge of its original habitat.
"If you don't know exactly where that animal is from, you could be introducing viruses to a naive population," says Lovich.
The species themselves are selected for a range of values. Some for their rare and exotic qualities, like an ivory totem or a python wallet. Others are captured and sold for pseudo-medicinal purposes, such as the bladder from the Totoaba, a critically endangered sea bass that can only be found in Mexico's Sea of Cortez. The demand for this specific organ is coming from over 8,000 miles aay in Asia due to the belief that the bladder can improve circulation, skin vitality and boost fertility. One bladder can sell for $15,000 on the black market.
Undercover agents are doing what they can to intercept the sale of trafficked goods, but the major driver of this falls on the public and the escalating demand for exotic animals. An economic boom, superstition, celebrity, and dubious medicinal claims are all playing a role, encouraging conspicuous consumption in Asia. Education and crackdowns need to continue to help mitigate the global trade.
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Most CRAZY Smuggling Attempts Ever Caught!

Check out the craziest smuggling attempts ever caught! From smugglers with exotic animals to other contraband, this top 10 list of crazy smuggle stories at the ...

Check out the craziest smuggling attempts ever caught! From smugglers with exotic animals to other contraband, this top 10 list of crazy smuggle stories at the customs border is absolutely shocking!
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10. Cockatoos in Water Bottles
Smugglers come up with ingenious, and often very cruel ways to try to take animals through customs. They stand to make a lot of money if they are successful, but treating animals like a commodity leads to them being treated very badly. One of the clearest examples of this happened in 2015, when officials in Indonesia found 24 Cockatoos that had been stuffed into water bottles.
The critically endangered species can sell for as much at 1,000 dollars on the black market, but with less than 7,000 of them thought to remain in the wild it’s vital that they are protected. Luckily on this occasion the birds were found and freed before they could be taken out of the country, but bird smuggling is a real problem in Indonesia. About 10,000 parrots are thought to be caught and sold each year, with more than 40% of them believed to die in transit because of the horrible conditions they are kept in.
9. Watermelons Full of WeedDespite the fact that marijuana is becoming increasingly legal across the United States and around the world, there’s still a massive industry based around the illegal transportation and sale of the drug. Smugglers conceal it within everyday objects to try and cover up the smell.
This failed attempt in May of 2015 was trying to do just that. At the port of Nogales, Arizona, a CustomsBorder Patrol dog alerted officers to a suspicious shipment on a tractor-trailer rig, so they investigated further. The boxes they found were full of watermelons, but some looked kind of weird. What the smugglers had done was hidden bales of marijuana mixed in with the fruit that were wrapped in a way to make them look like watermelon. Of course, it became quite obvious once officers realized what they were looking for, and the smugglers must not have done a good job, because in total, they found 128 bales that contained 1,455 pounds of weed. This would have been worth about 728,000 dollars if sold on the black market, and the driver soon found his whole shipment being confiscated and, in the end, incinerated.
8. CocaineBreast Implants
You’ve probably heard of people trying to conceal drugs inside themselves to try and smuggle them on an airplane or across a border, but this next story takes it to a whole new level. In 2012, a woman who was travelling from Bogotá, Colombia to Barcelona, Spain was acting pretty strangely. Customs officials pulled her aside for questioning. Unconvinced by her responses, they decided to take her to one of the back rooms to conduct a more thorough search.
The female officer conducting the investigation soon noticed some bandages around the woman’s breasts that were soaked in blood. She asked about them, and the woman claimed she had recently had breast enhancement surgery. The officer removed the bandages and found, to her surprise, that there were open wounds on each breast, with no attempt at stitching at all. She must have been in extreme pain and was bleeding quite badly. Furthermore, there were clearly visible plastic bags protruding from the wounds.
The traveller was immediately sent to the local hospital where the full extent of what had happened was discovered. Within each breast was a bag containing 1.5 pounds of pure uncut cocaine.
Origins Explained is the place to be to find all the answers to your questions, from mysterious events and unsolved mysteries to everything there is to know about the world and its amazing animals!

Check out the craziest smuggling attempts ever caught! From smugglers with exotic animals to other contraband, this top 10 list of crazy smuggle stories at the customs border is absolutely shocking!
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10. Cockatoos in Water Bottles
Smugglers come up with ingenious, and often very cruel ways to try to take animals through customs. They stand to make a lot of money if they are successful, but treating animals like a commodity leads to them being treated very badly. One of the clearest examples of this happened in 2015, when officials in Indonesia found 24 Cockatoos that had been stuffed into water bottles.
The critically endangered species can sell for as much at 1,000 dollars on the black market, but with less than 7,000 of them thought to remain in the wild it’s vital that they are protected. Luckily on this occasion the birds were found and freed before they could be taken out of the country, but bird smuggling is a real problem in Indonesia. About 10,000 parrots are thought to be caught and sold each year, with more than 40% of them believed to die in transit because of the horrible conditions they are kept in.
9. Watermelons Full of WeedDespite the fact that marijuana is becoming increasingly legal across the United States and around the world, there’s still a massive industry based around the illegal transportation and sale of the drug. Smugglers conceal it within everyday objects to try and cover up the smell.
This failed attempt in May of 2015 was trying to do just that. At the port of Nogales, Arizona, a CustomsBorder Patrol dog alerted officers to a suspicious shipment on a tractor-trailer rig, so they investigated further. The boxes they found were full of watermelons, but some looked kind of weird. What the smugglers had done was hidden bales of marijuana mixed in with the fruit that were wrapped in a way to make them look like watermelon. Of course, it became quite obvious once officers realized what they were looking for, and the smugglers must not have done a good job, because in total, they found 128 bales that contained 1,455 pounds of weed. This would have been worth about 728,000 dollars if sold on the black market, and the driver soon found his whole shipment being confiscated and, in the end, incinerated.
8. CocaineBreast Implants
You’ve probably heard of people trying to conceal drugs inside themselves to try and smuggle them on an airplane or across a border, but this next story takes it to a whole new level. In 2012, a woman who was travelling from Bogotá, Colombia to Barcelona, Spain was acting pretty strangely. Customs officials pulled her aside for questioning. Unconvinced by her responses, they decided to take her to one of the back rooms to conduct a more thorough search.
The female officer conducting the investigation soon noticed some bandages around the woman’s breasts that were soaked in blood. She asked about them, and the woman claimed she had recently had breast enhancement surgery. The officer removed the bandages and found, to her surprise, that there were open wounds on each breast, with no attempt at stitching at all. She must have been in extreme pain and was bleeding quite badly. Furthermore, there were clearly visible plastic bags protruding from the wounds.
The traveller was immediately sent to the local hospital where the full extent of what had happened was discovered. Within each breast was a bag containing 1.5 pounds of pure uncut cocaine.
Origins Explained is the place to be to find all the answers to your questions, from mysterious events and unsolved mysteries to everything there is to know about the world and its amazing animals!

Peru's Monkey Business: In this episode Unreported world goes deep into the amazon jungle to investigate the murky world of wildlife trafficking.
South american crocodiles, monkeys and even big cats are highly prosed as exotic pets - but many are also endangered.
Ade Adepitan went to Peru to track down the criminal networks trafficking tens of thousands of animals every year.
Subscribe to our channel for more Unreported World episodes http://bit.ly/2eUxoWX.
This Unreported World episode was first aired on Channel 4 on 17/03/2017.

Peru's Monkey Business: In this episode Unreported world goes deep into the amazon jungle to investigate the murky world of wildlife trafficking.
South american crocodiles, monkeys and even big cats are highly prosed as exotic pets - but many are also endangered.
Ade Adepitan went to Peru to track down the criminal networks trafficking tens of thousands of animals every year.
Subscribe to our channel for more Unreported World episodes http://bit.ly/2eUxoWX.
This Unreported World episode was first aired on Channel 4 on 17/03/2017.

CairoConnection (2008): On the trail of wildlife smugglers in Cairo.
For similar stories, see:
The Monkeys Murdered to FillAmerica's Zoos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AgoPJu-uZU
One Man's Mission To Take His Pet ElephantsHome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFJ2y7JLbcI
Conservation Or Cruelty? South Africa'sElephant Cull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WukXmW2h0bE
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Despite an international ban, the trade in endangered animals to the Middle East is flourishing. This exclusive report tracks the dealers, buyers and government officials who protect them.
In January 2005, a crate containing six baby chimpanzees and four monkeys was rescued from a flight from Cairo. The animals had been denied food and water for days and one soon died. Scouring flight records, animal investigators linked the shipment to a notorious wildlife smuggler. It's believed this smuggler traffics an average of 40 chimpanzees a year, bribing airport officials. Despite a wealth of evidence against her, she has never been prosecuted.
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CairoConnection (2008): On the trail of wildlife smugglers in Cairo.
For similar stories, see:
The Monkeys Murdered to FillAmerica's Zoos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AgoPJu-uZU
One Man's Mission To Take His Pet ElephantsHome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFJ2y7JLbcI
Conservation Or Cruelty? South Africa'sElephant Cull
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Despite an international ban, the trade in endangered animals to the Middle East is flourishing. This exclusive report tracks the dealers, buyers and government officials who protect them.
In January 2005, a crate containing six baby chimpanzees and four monkeys was rescued from a flight from Cairo. The animals had been denied food and water for days and one soon died. Scouring flight records, animal investigators linked the shipment to a notorious wildlife smuggler. It's believed this smuggler traffics an average of 40 chimpanzees a year, bribing airport officials. Despite a wealth of evidence against her, she has never been prosecuted.
Karl Ammann – Ref. 3788
JourneymanPictures is your independent source for the world's most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world's top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you'll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.

An Inside Look at the Exotic Animal Trade: Profiles by VICE

Wildlife trafficking is estimated to be a $19 billion per year global business, surpassed only by black-market sales and trafficking of drugs, humans, and firea...

Wildlife trafficking is estimated to be a $19 billion per year global business, surpassed only by black-market sales and trafficking of drugs, humans, and firearms.
In theUnited States, regulation of private ownership of exotic animals is determined by each state, allowing for loopholes and oversight. Animals are bought and traded through auctions, backyard breeders, illicit online sales and more. The industry is growing right in our backyards.
VICE travels to Ohio to rescue a cougar, then to Texas for an exotic livestock auction and undercover visit to a gaming ranch where the animals are sold and hunted for up to $15,000 a piece.
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Wildlife trafficking is estimated to be a $19 billion per year global business, surpassed only by black-market sales and trafficking of drugs, humans, and firearms.
In theUnited States, regulation of private ownership of exotic animals is determined by each state, allowing for loopholes and oversight. Animals are bought and traded through auctions, backyard breeders, illicit online sales and more. The industry is growing right in our backyards.
VICE travels to Ohio to rescue a cougar, then to Texas for an exotic livestock auction and undercover visit to a gaming ranch where the animals are sold and hunted for up to $15,000 a piece.
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Customs officials at an airport in Shanghai uncovered 121 endangered snakes stuffed into a suitcase. The snakes belonged to a smuggler, who claimed that they were just toys when officers asked to look inside the case, after seeing abnormal images on the scanner screen. Upon opening the case customs officials found the reptiles stuffed into black stockings and packed away in 21 plastic boxes. The snakes have been identified as endangered ball pythons, so called because they curl into a ball when frightened. It is illegal to trade the snakes across international borders, but these pythons had been smuggled to Hong Kong from Seattle by air cargo, where the trafficker picked them up and carried them to Shaghai. The unsuccessful smuggler was detained by police and may face up to life imprisonment for trafficking rare animals. Report by LaurieBlake.
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Customs officials at an airport in Shanghai uncovered 121 endangered snakes stuffed into a suitcase. The snakes belonged to a smuggler, who claimed that they were just toys when officers asked to look inside the case, after seeing abnormal images on the scanner screen. Upon opening the case customs officials found the reptiles stuffed into black stockings and packed away in 21 plastic boxes. The snakes have been identified as endangered ball pythons, so called because they curl into a ball when frightened. It is illegal to trade the snakes across international borders, but these pythons had been smuggled to Hong Kong from Seattle by air cargo, where the trafficker picked them up and carried them to Shaghai. The unsuccessful smuggler was detained by police and may face up to life imprisonment for trafficking rare animals. Report by LaurieBlake.
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Ruthless wildlife smuggling | Global Ideas

The Wildlife Alliance is making big strides in fighting the booming illegal animal trade in Cambodia with its conservationists and special forces successfully t...

The Wildlife Alliance is making big strides in fighting the booming illegal animal trade in Cambodia with its conservationists and special forces successfully taking on the organized mafia-style business.
More information: http://www.dw.de/top-stories/global-ideas/s-30654

The Wildlife Alliance is making big strides in fighting the booming illegal animal trade in Cambodia with its conservationists and special forces successfully taking on the organized mafia-style business.
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Documenting Asia's Illegal Animal Trade

We visited photographer Patrick Brown to talk about his forthcoming book, Trading to Extinction, which documents the illegal trade of endangered animals in Asia...

We visited photographer Patrick Brown to talk about his forthcoming book, Trading to Extinction, which documents the illegal trade of endangered animals in Asia. We then travel with Brown to Guangzhou, China, where he finishes his decade-long project.
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We visited photographer Patrick Brown to talk about his forthcoming book, Trading to Extinction, which documents the illegal trade of endangered animals in Asia. We then travel with Brown to Guangzhou, China, where he finishes his decade-long project.
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The smuggling of endangered wildlife, both dead and alive, is a billion dollar global business, second only in size to the illegal arms and drug trades. American border control continues to see an incessant attempt at bringing hundreds of species into the United States every year - each attempt more creative than the next.
Chatuchak market in Bangkok is one of the largest open air flea markets in Thailand, attracting locals and tourists alike. It boasts over 8,000 vendors selling every type of good under the sun: ceramics, antiques, furniture, clothing and endangered animals. Chatachuk has been recognised by the World Wildlife Fund as a hot spot for illegal animal trade.
"It's really disturbing actually - there's no telling what you're going to find," says Joseph Johns, prosecutor of environmental crimes at the US Attorney's office in Los Angeles, of Chatachuk. "You couldn't do this anywhere in the United States of America."
People do ask me, 'what's the strangest animal you've ever seen?' and I'll tell them, 'it's man'.
Mike Osborn, supervisor, US Fish and Wildlife ServiceThe market is a tragically perfect place to sell and buy illegal wildlife. It is a bustling scene with hoards of people, perfect cover for a potential deal. Vendors can hide their illegal animals behind domestic pet storefronts. Thailand itself serves as a major funnel for the $10 billion illegal wildlife trade. There is a good chance that what is sold in Chatuchak might find it's way back to the United States.
The black market for the animal trade is unsurprisingly nondiscriminatory - live crocodiles, overharvested Queen conch shells, and even rare orchids and other flora have also made their way across patrolled borders.
"I've had monkeys jump out of suitcases, birds flying out of toothpaste boxes... they get more and more intricate nowadays," says Mike Osborn, supervisor with the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
In some cases, the attempts to smuggle have been so desperate, the methods have matched the desire to make business. In Los Angeles, Jereme James was caught smuggling three Fiji island banded iguanas from a nature preserve - whilst on honeymoon - and attempting to sell them to an undercover US Fish and Wildlife Service agent. James admitted to smuggling the iguanas by creating a special compartment in his prosthetic leg.
As with many other animals seized at the border, the iguanas in question were rescued by a zoo, in this case, the San Diego ZooReptile House. According to zoo curator Kim Lovich, most seized animals live out their days in captivity; it can be very difficult to return an animal back to its home without full knowledge of its original habitat.
"If you don't know exactly where that animal is from, you could be introducing viruses to a naive population," says Lovich.
The species themselves are selected for a range of values. Some for their rare and exotic qualities, like an ivory totem or a python wallet. Others are captured and sold for pseudo-medicinal purposes, such as the bladder from the Totoaba, a critically endangered sea bass that can only be found in Mexico's Sea of Cortez. The demand for this specific organ is coming from over 8,000 miles aay in Asia due to the belief that the bladder can improve circulation, skin vitality and boost fertility. One bladder can sell for $15,000 on the black market.
Undercover agents are doing what they can to intercept the sale of trafficked goods, but the major driver of this falls on the public and the escalating demand for exotic animals. An economic boom, superstition, celebrity, and dubious medicinal claims are all playing a role, encouraging conspicuous consumption in Asia. Education and crackdowns need to continue to help mitigate the global trade.
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Check out the craziest smuggling attempts ever caught! From smugglers with exotic animals to other contraband, this top 10 list of crazy smuggle stories at the customs border is absolutely shocking!
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10. Cockatoos in Water Bottles
Smugglers come up with ingenious, and often very cruel ways to try to take animals through customs. They stand to make a lot of money if they are successful, but treating animals like a commodity leads to them being treated very badly. One of the clearest examples of this happened in 2015, when officials in Indonesia found 24 Cockatoos that had been stuffed into water bottles.
The critically endangered species can sell for as much at 1,000 dollars on the black market, but with less than 7,000 of them thought to remain in the wild it’s vital that they are protected. Luckily on this occasion the birds were found and freed before they could be taken out of the country, but bird smuggling is a real problem in Indonesia. About 10,000 parrots are thought to be caught and sold each year, with more than 40% of them believed to die in transit because of the horrible conditions they are kept in.
9. Watermelons Full of WeedDespite the fact that marijuana is becoming increasingly legal across the United States and around the world, there’s still a massive industry based around the illegal transportation and sale of the drug. Smugglers conceal it within everyday objects to try and cover up the smell.
This failed attempt in May of 2015 was trying to do just that. At the port of Nogales, Arizona, a CustomsBorder Patrol dog alerted officers to a suspicious shipment on a tractor-trailer rig, so they investigated further. The boxes they found were full of watermelons, but some looked kind of weird. What the smugglers had done was hidden bales of marijuana mixed in with the fruit that were wrapped in a way to make them look like watermelon. Of course, it became quite obvious once officers realized what they were looking for, and the smugglers must not have done a good job, because in total, they found 128 bales that contained 1,455 pounds of weed. This would have been worth about 728,000 dollars if sold on the black market, and the driver soon found his whole shipment being confiscated and, in the end, incinerated.
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You’ve probably heard of people trying to conceal drugs inside themselves to try and smuggle them on an airplane or across a border, but this next story takes it to a whole new level. In 2012, a woman who was travelling from Bogotá, Colombia to Barcelona, Spain was acting pretty strangely. Customs officials pulled her aside for questioning. Unconvinced by her responses, they decided to take her to one of the back rooms to conduct a more thorough search.
The female officer conducting the investigation soon noticed some bandages around the woman’s breasts that were soaked in blood. She asked about them, and the woman claimed she had recently had breast enhancement surgery. The officer removed the bandages and found, to her surprise, that there were open wounds on each breast, with no attempt at stitching at all. She must have been in extreme pain and was bleeding quite badly. Furthermore, there were clearly visible plastic bags protruding from the wounds.
The traveller was immediately sent to the local hospital where the full extent of what had happened was discovered. Within each breast was a bag containing 1.5 pounds of pure uncut cocaine.
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Illegal animal trafficking in Peru | Unreported World

Peru's Monkey Business: In this episode Unreported world goes deep into the amazon jungle to investigate the murky world of wildlife trafficking.
South american crocodiles, monkeys and even big cats are highly prosed as exotic pets - but many are also endangered.
Ade Adepitan went to Peru to track down the criminal networks trafficking tens of thousands of animals every year.
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An Inside Look at the Exotic Animal Trade: Profiles by VICE

Wildlife trafficking is estimated to be a $19 billion per year global business, surpassed only by black-market sales and trafficking of drugs, humans, and firearms.
In theUnited States, regulation of private ownership of exotic animals is determined by each state, allowing for loopholes and oversight. Animals are bought and traded through auctions, backyard breeders, illicit online sales and more. The industry is growing right in our backyards.
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Documenting Asia's Illegal Animal Trade

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Wildlife (band)

Wildlife are a Canadianindie rock band formed in 2005. The band is currently based in Toronto. The band's debut LP Strike Hard, Young Diamond was favourably received by both Exclaim! and Chart.

History

Formation

Band members Dean Povinsky, Graham Plant and Dwayne Christie are originally from Oshawa, Ontario. Wildlife began as an entity in 2005, when singer/guitarist Povinsky and guitarist Darryl Smith left Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and moved to Glasgow to form and play in a band. The group, also comprising Scottish drummer Peter Kelly and Canadian Billy Holmes, spent time travelling, writing songs, recording and playing small venues around Glasgow. The dark days, rain, and a general homesickness led the members to abandon the project and return to Canada.

Povinsky moved to Toronto with the intention of continuing Wildlife with childhood friend Graham Plant on guitar, drummer Dwayne Christie and Julia Mensink playing synthesizer. The group was rounded out when bassist Derek Bosomworth was procured via a Craigslist advertisement. The band is currently based in Toronto.